Terms vs Scalper - What's the difference?
terms | scalper |
One who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.
* 2013 , M. Elise Marubbio, ?Eric L. Buffalohead, Native Americans on Film: Conversations, Teaching, and Theory
(US) One who scalps tickets to popular entertainment events: buying them in advance and then selling them (e.g. online or just outside the venue of the event), often at inflated prices
(finance) A person on an open outcry exchange trading floor who buys and sells rapidly for his or her own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).
As nouns the difference between terms and scalper
is that terms is while scalper is one who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.scalper
English
Noun
(en noun)- Denouncing representations of hostile Indians as vicious scalpers of innocent settlers
- We could see three different scalpers moving through the crowd outside the arena, each muttering the characteristic refrain: “Need any tickets?”